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Respecting Your Access and Privacy Rights - A Citizen's Guide for Nova Scotians (June 2008)
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Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia (RTKNS) is a non-profit organization. Through advocacy and education, RTKNS encourages the use and development of freedom-of-information legislation to foster a better informed and more politically active electorate in Nova Scotia and to improve the quality of public and private decision making in the province.
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Newsworthy FOI Requests
Your FOI Experience:
Have you ever filed a FOI request? What has been your experience? Has the information you sought been forthcoming, or did you find the bureaucracy working against you? How do you think the Act can further be strengthened, so that it serves its purpose better? Let Us Know!
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- Free our data: Searchable video clips ruffle Parli...
- Gmail isn't suitable for public records - Roanoke.com
- The right to information in Africa
- Make freedom of information an election issue: The...
- Secrecy is a nasty virus that can lay low the body...
- 4th Annual Freedom of Information Conference, Lond...
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES FIRST AMENDMENT C...
- Senator incensed by Govt's FoI stance - The Canber...
- NSP salaries to stay secret - TheChronicleHerald.ca
- Will accountability and transparency for NY public...
- Palin's two e-mail accounts questioned: Is state b...
- FOI Request: US Federal workers owe billions in un...
- Taking part in the democratic process: novanewsnow...
- Public Service - Scotland puts FOI information onl...
- Public Has Right to Know - The Intelligencer / Whe...
- Names of panelists for annual Right to Know lunche...
- Nigerian Senate plans FOI Bill as Independence Day...
- Curtailing open government - Las Vegas Sun
- Reform is long overdue - Chatham Daily News
- NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA FREEDOM OF INFO...
- NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA FREEDOM OF INFO...
- Governments, do not frustrate your citizens - TheC...
- Windsor watchdogs demand probe of city's FOI tab -...
- University of Arkansas (MS) to keep exec hunt priv...
- FOI request: When the bill hits six figures - cana...
- FoI data released after Larne council review - Lar...
- Info watchdog: Flagging access requests can cause ...
- Dean Beeby presents a webinar session to help trai...
- Do clusters of email communications constitute mee...
- FOI FYI : That time of year again: University stud...
- Freedom of Information Act stalled in Senate- Phil...
- NB paper goes to court seeking to make Lepreau 2 s...
- Information can sometimes be destroyed after being...
- EDITORIAL: Enough secrecy, Barwon Health - The Gee...
- Ex-student wins legal fight with uni over exams | ...
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Links
- Accountability Initiative (India)
- The Art of Access
- Centre for Law and Democracy
- Canadian Government Expenses (Bine Consulting)
- Open Parliament
- Know How They Vote (NS Legislature)
- Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators
- Find Your Nova Scotia MLA
- RTKNS Photo Albums
- NS Provincial Government Food Safety Reports
- NS Select Committee on Participation in the Democratic Process
- NS Democracy 250
- House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI)
- Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)
- Independent Diplomat
- National Whistleblowers Center
- right2info.org : The Right to Information: Good Law and Practice
- National Freedom of Information Blog
- Apathy is Boring
- Empire Center for New York State Policy
- Maine Freedom of Information Coalition (MFOIC)
Fellow Bloggers
- iSolon.org
- Michael Geist
- BBC Open Secrets
- Open and Shut (Australia)
- Waye Mason - Citadel Schools
- JournaListed - Heather Brooke
- David T.S. Fraser - PrivacyLawyer
- Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Freedom of Information News
- Heather Brooke - Your Right to Know (UK)
- Open Secrets: A BBC blog about freedom of information by Martin Rosenbaum
"Without the FOI, the establishment would have been able to hide even more than it does now. Instead of making it harder for people to get information from public bodies on how they are run, it should be made easier."-- Norwich North UK MP Ian Gibson (Oct 2006) on raising FOI fees
If the public is "to participate more [in government] than just via the ballot box, then they need proper access to information"-- Joanne Caddy, (Nov 2001), "Why citizens are central to good governance", OECD Observer,